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BEYOND provides students and teachers innovative ideas on ways to amplify the impact of the performance experience outside of the classroom. Utilize this resource for suggestions on using the performance as a springboard into building a more extensive unit plan, enriching the larger school community, and making connec-tions to the art form of the show in the greater cultural landscape. This section also includes a handout for your students’ families, providing information about their trip to The New Victory and offering ways they can continue the impact of the theater-going experience.

MAKING CONNECTIONS TO LEARNING STANDARDS New Victory School tool Resource Guides align with the Common Core State Standards, New York State Learning Standards and New York City Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts. We believe that these standards support both the high quality instruction and deep engagement that The New Victory Theater strives to achieve in its arts education practice.

WHAT IS “BEYOND” RING A DING DING?

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EXTENDING THE EXpERIENCE

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COMMON CORESpeaking and Listening Standards: 1Language Standards: 3

NEW YORK STATE STANDARDSArts Standards: Standard 1, Standard 2English Language Arts Standards: Standard 1, Standard 4

BLUEPRINT FOR THE ARTSMaking Connections

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RING A DING DING features a large mobile at the center of the set, which rotates above the audience. Using the entire unit of activities in this SCHOOL TOOL Resource Guide, allow each of your students to create a mobile inspired by their experience at the show.

1. Provide three pieces of construction paper cut in various shapes to each student in your class.

2. Either on their own or with help, have the students write one word on each of the pieces describing their favorite parts of the show or how they felt about it (e.g. “Journey,” “Excited,” and “Dance”).

3. Collect pieces from the School Tool to include as design elements for the mobile including:

a. The three elements from WHERE HAS MY PET GONE? (Inside) b. MINI-ME puppet (Before) c. Vehicles from HOW WILL I GET THERE? (En Route) d. Show imagery from ALICE’S JOURNEY (After) e. The three word shapes from this activity4. Display them around your classroom, or somewhere more public in your

school to showcase your students’ work and experience at the theater! What do you see on the mobile?Which drawings catch your eye?What do you remember about the play RING A DING DING when you look at this mobile? What was your favorite part of the play?

Are you seeing multiple performances with your students this year? Whether you are taking your students to more shows at The New Victory, or coordinating field trips to other performances, create a Performance Scrapbook Wall in your classroom to record their experiences and keep it as a living scrapbook that you can add to over the course of the year. Include activities created from the New Victory School tool Resource Guides, pictures from your trip, and other work you may do inspired by the show. You may consider using the Performance Reflection Template (found in the AFTER section of this School Tool). This way, students can continue to make connections between the performance and their class work over the year, as well as make connections between the different performances they see this year!

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REfLECTION: What do you see on the mobile/wall?

Which drawings catch your eye?

What do you remember about the play RING A DING DING when you look at this mobile/wall? What was your favorite part of the play?

Do you remember the little girl’s journey to find her dog? Who did she talk to? Where did she go?

If Alice’s dog went on another adventure, where do you think he would go?

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Have a conversation about his/her trip to the theater. Talking about live performance is an important part of your kid’s learning and it deepens and extends the original experience. By asking questions you can help foster observation and recall skills. You might ask:

•WhatwasitliketotakeatriptoTimesSquare?Whatdidyousee? •WheredidAlicegoonherjourney?Howdidshefindherdog? •WhatwasyourfavoriteplacethatAlicevisitedalongtheway? •Whatwasitliketogetupanddanceonthemoonduringtheshow?

Make an Instrument from Recycled Materials

RING A DING DING features an entire design constructed out of recycled materials, including several instruments! Using plastic bottles, cans, and other household items, see how many different instruments and sounds you and your kids can create together. Make a symphony from recycled materials!

Learn More about Art Together!

One of the best ways you can enrich a young person’s experience with the arts is to get in on the act. Did the trip to the theater spark your child’s interest in storytelling, puppetry or music? Take a class together! The New Victory offers opportunities for you and your child to make art, learn, share and play as a family. For information on New Victory Family Workshops, visit NewVictory.org or call 646.223.3010. Our partners Time Out New York Kids and RedRover (a brand new app designed to help you make plans on the fly!) list family activities of all kinds across the city. Check them out at timeoutnewyorkkids.com and redroverapp.com.

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Your child’s class saw a performance called

RING A DING DINGat The New 42Nd STreeT Studios,

presented by The New Victory Theater,New York’s theater for kids and families.

This show is a colorful, creative and energetic work of participatory theater. Audiences sit around a round

playing space as the action unfolds and Alice and her pals—Milkie, Mermaid, Captain and more—search high

and low for her runaway dog.

RESOuRCE fOR fAMILIESTo extend the experience, you may consider some of the following suggestions: